In 1903, Marie and Pierre Curie, along with Henri Becquerel, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their collective work on radioactivity. This recognition was groundbreaking, not only for ...

The physicists-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these their hard ... shared with Henri Becquerel, in physics), but soon the element would appear in makeup, toothpaste and health drinks ...

Marie Curie, Pierre Curie with Autobiographical Notes More firsts and a tragedy In June 1903, Marie Curie’s research led her to become the first woman in France to get a Ph.D. In December of that year ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural radioactive elements polonium and radium, they did something truly remarkable– they uncovered an entirely new property of matter. The Curies ...

Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw November ... half to Mons. and Mme. Curie and half to Henri Becquerel, whose discovery of the spontaneous radio-activity of uranium ore formed the basis of ...

For this the Curies and Becquerel shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 ... Her daughter Irene also became a scientist, and in 1934, Marie saw Irene and her husband Frederick Joliot-Curie produce ...